Dyslexia in bilingualism : A case study of an English-Norwegian bilingual child with developmental dyslexia
Master thesis
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Gil Martinez, N.E. (2021) Dyslexia in bilingualism : A case study of an English-Norwegian bilingual child with developmental dyslexia (Master's thesis). University of Agder, Kristiansand.Sammendrag
This study investigates the interactions between dyslexia and bilingualism, and aims to observe how dyslexia presents itself in a bilingual individual. The importance of language similarity, orthographic transparency and cognate effect is investigated through a set experiments and analysis of dyslexia assessment results. Data for this study is collected by means of qualitative(questionnaire and dyslexia assessment)and quantitative (RAN and word spotting tasks)methods based on a case study of an English-Norwegian bilingual with developmental dyslexia.
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Master´s thesis in English (EN500)